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2026-05-13 20:42 UTC
@ZenHeathen@beige.party this is where we get into prescriptivism vs descriptivism; there's plenty of evidence (and debate thereof) of both spellings. Language evolves, and what makes the compounding of it ... incorrect? It's easy to be an armchair lexicographer, but linguistics is much heavier. I am neither.
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@ZenHeathen@beige.party 2026-05-13 20:47
@mWare@ottawa.place I have found in my years on this Earth that it is functionally impossible to be either strictly prescriptivist (language could never evolve and change) nor strictly descriptivist (we need to have *some* level of common meaning and understanding). That said, in those same years, I've never once seen "eachother". I don't deny it might exist in history or in some other place than those I've inhabited or read the written word from, but it's alien to my experience. Honestly, I was just having fun with the premise in order to point out, alongside, the fun pronunciation thing I'd noticed.